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Status: Indexed

forma eique adpresso [appresso], lateralibus linearibus,
obtusis divergentibus.

Floret mensibus Septemb et Octobr. Capens bon. sepei.

It agrees pretty well with the species described by Thunberg
under this name, but not entirely: for that author speaks
the upper sepal being somewhat notched at the end, and
of a plant a foot high. It is therefore possible that 2 species
nearly allied to each other exist at the Cape of g. H. and
that while this fig. represents one of them, the barbarous
drawing in Brandes journal, as above quoted, may have been
intended for the other.

Fig 1. Flower seen in profile.

Fig 2. Front view of the same, the petals & upper sepal [crossed out: just
visible at the base.] having been cut off; the principal part
of the fig. represents the lip, with the point of the lower double
sepal just visible at the base.

Fig 3. The column in profile with the lip adhering to it, and 1
lobe of the purple anther.

Fig 4. Front view of the column, the lip having been cut off
as is shown by the scar represented on the upper edge; the
glands of the pollen masses are seen lying in the cavities
of the rostellum.

Fig 5. Sketch of a pollen mass sticking to the rostellum &
pulled out of the anther.

Fig 6. The same parts seen in a different direction with
the pollen in its cell.

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